About the Founder
Founder, Narratora · Award-Winning Film Director, Writer & Producer
Lonzo Nzekwe is an award-winning Nigerian-Canadian film director, writer, producer and technology entrepreneur. He is the founder of Narratora, a Toronto-based generative content automation platform built to transform source material into structured, professional, ready-to-use outputs for filmmakers, creators and professionals.
Lonzo Nzekwe — Toronto, Canada
Narratora grew out of Lonzo’s experience working across film development, production, television and independent media. Over the course of his career, he experienced firsthand how much time creative professionals spend on the intensive work surrounding the creative process: reading and analyzing source material, extracting information, organizing research, breaking down screenplays, preparing presentations and production documents, developing marketing materials, and repeatedly turning the same underlying information into different professional outputs.
That experience helped shape the idea behind Narratora: instead of starting with a blank AI chatbot and figuring out what to prompt, users should be able to provide their source material, choose the professional workflow they need, and generate a structured output designed for that specific purpose.
The philosophy behind the platform
From Filmmaker to Founder
Lonzo’s understanding of creative and production workflows comes from more than two decades of hands-on experience in film, television and media. A self-taught filmmaker, he developed his craft through intensive independent study — including Dov S-S Simens’ 2-Day Film School and editing training at the Witz Training Institute in Toronto — and through studying the behind-the-scenes processes of established Hollywood directors. His career has since expanded across directing, screenwriting, producing, consulting, television, entrepreneurship and technology.
Feature directorial debut
Won 13 international awards, including Best Film and Best Actress at the 2010 Harlem International Film Festival. Theatrical releases in Canada, the UK, Nigeria and Ghana, followed by five years on Netflix. Currently streaming on Tubi.
Short film
Won Best Short Film at the 2016 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA).
Revenge crime thriller — Toronto & Lagos
Selected for the Toronto International Film Festival's Industry Selects in 2023, and winner of two Reelworld Film Festival awards, including Outstanding Feature Writer. Nominated for Performance in a Leading Role, Drama at the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards, and received nine Africa Movie Academy Awards nominations, including Best Film and Best Director.
Before Narratora
Lonzo’s entrepreneurial experience in media predates Narratora. In 2013, he co-founded FEVA TV, the first Black-owned 24-hour Canadian television network, serving as CEO until 2015. He subsequently founded IronFlix Inc., a Toronto-based film production company focused on genre films, African diaspora stories and transnational cinema.
Why Narratora
After years of working with screenplays, production documents, research, creative materials and professional deliverables, Lonzo saw an opportunity to apply generative AI differently. Rather than building another general-purpose AI writing tool, he envisioned a platform organized around completed workflows and professional outcomes.
Narratora was officially launched on September 11, 2026, as a generative content automation platform designed around that principle. For filmmakers, that means workflows that take a screenplay or other project material and help generate professional outputs for different stages of the filmmaking process — from Professional Script Coverage and pitch materials to production breakdowns and sales materials. For creators and other professionals, Narratora applies the same source-driven approach to workflows such as YouTube scripts, business pitch decks, presentation slides, reports, newsletters, executive briefs, study guides and other structured outputs.
The objective is not to replace the professionals behind these processes. It is to reduce the repetitive first-pass work involved in reading, extracting, organizing, structuring and transforming source material — so that people can spend more of their time reviewing, refining, making decisions and creating.
For Lonzo, Narratora represents a natural extension of the work he has been doing throughout his career: using storytelling, media and technology to find better ways to turn ideas and source material into finished work.
See what Narratora produces — real samples of script coverage, production breakdowns, pitch decks and one-pagers — or start the 5-day trial for $5.
